Mary Zerkel is the Associate Regional Director of the Midwest Region and Coordinator of Communities Against Islamophobia, which works in partnership with the Muslim community to train allies to recognize and counter anti-Muslim policies and practices — with the long term goal of reducing profiling and surveillance of the Muslim community.
Pedro Rios serves as director of the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S./Mexico Border Program and has been on staff with AFSC since 2003. He oversees a program that documents abuses by law enforcement agencies, collaborates with community groups, advocates for policy change, and works with migrant communities to build collective leadership locally and throughout the border region.
Mike Merryman-Lotze serves as AFSC's Just Peace Global Policy Director. As a member of the Global Policy, Strategy, and Advocacy Department, Mike leads AFSC’s global peace building policy work, supporting both US and International staff and programs.
John has been a writer, researcher and organizer focused on demilitarization and human rights, especially in the United States and Latin America, for more than 35 years. He co-authored the "Care First, Jails Last” policy adopted by Alameda County, as well as local legislation on militarized equipment used by police in Oakland and Berkeley, California. He represented AFSC in the Stop Urban Shield Coalition to end a militarized SWAT team competition, including representing the coalition in two county committees that helped reformulate emergency response policies in Alameda County and ended Urban Shield.
Bonnie Kerness serves as the coordinator for AFSC’s Prison Watch Program, based in Newark, NJ. In this capacity, she provides human rights monitoring and advocacy support to imprisoned individuals and their family members, collects testimonies of prisoners reporting abuses committed behind bars, and creates resources to help people in prison.
Gabriela Flora is AFSC's Donor Liaison and Gift Planning Partner.
Beth Hallowell serves as AFSC’s Director of Campaigns and Communications Analytics.
Jennifer has worked with AFSC since 1989, organizing dozens of speaking tours, conferences, educational workshops, protests, delegations, and public events.
Dov Baum is the director of AFSC’s Action Center for Corporate Accountability. She has worked with AFSC since 2012. Dov is the co-founder of Who Profits from the Occupation and of the Coalition of Women for Peace in Israel. She is a feminist scholar and teacher who has taught about militarism and the global economy from a feminist perspective in Israeli and U.S. universities.